Adele Just Released Her 'Hello' Video — And the Internet Is Obsessed With Her Flip Phone

The video for Adele's first single in three years, "Hello," starts inconspicuously enough. The windswept singer is trying to call someone — her old lover, presumably — but can't get through. "I just got here, and I think I'm losing signal already," she intones. "Hello? Can you hear me now?"

And then what seemed like a throwback to that Verizon commercial we all have branded into our brains takes an even bigger turn for the nostalgic. Adele pulls out a flip phone.

Adele appears to be calling from 2006 with that flip phone pic.twitter.com/NDmuW2lA2x

She may have her reasons. Maybe she hates smartphones and thinks they're the downfall of society, or maybe she didn't want to bow down to the whims of corporations and their love of product placement. As PC Magazine notes, Adele uses progressively older and older technology in the video as "a statement about being trapped in the past, emotionally, and wanting to reconnect with it."

But this isn't just any flip phone.

Adele's flip phone looks like a Samsung E620, but it's hard to tell. It was likely released between 2003 and 2005. This is that phone you had when you were 12, the one your parents bought you because they didn't trust you with a Razr or because you broke that fancy Razr already and that was your punishment. This is the phone Verizon puts in their "basic" merchandise category. This is the phone teens use for the first time and stare at like it's a piece of moon rock. When reached by email, Colombe Raby, who worked on the video's production design, told Mic that the phone was a "nondescript flip flop phone."

The Internet, of course, lost its collective mind.

Further proof that @Adele can do whatever she wants...SHE'S BRINGING BACK THE FLIP PHONE pic.twitter.com/tlaBFzbHXx

A flip phone? Jeez. You probably can't even get whatsapp on that, you need the blue ticks of truth babe - then you know to move on. #Adele

no way adele uses a flip phone

The new Adele song is beautiful, emotional, and haunting, but the most heartbreaking part of the video is that she still uses a flip phone.

adele sold too many damn records to have a flip phone.

Adele still has a flip phone.

Why is Adele still using a flip phone? No wonder it's taken her 4 years to call

The year is 2062. Adele has just released her 26th album, "72". She still has a flip-phone.

incredible how Adele found the Sepia filter on her 2006 flip phone

Adele got michael from the wire in that hello video on a flip phone pic.twitter.com/Q6z9V9TL43

Everyone's talking about Adele and her flip phone and I'm just like pic.twitter.com/qm03itHeEc

Adele has a flip phone so I'm getting a flip phone

"You used to call me on my flip phone..." - Adele

Watch Adele bring the flip phone back in 2016. pic.twitter.com/M1HUX2wEnQ